Lara Gut

When: Feb. 16. Best of the U.S.: Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, Leanne Smith. Best of the rest: Lara Gut (Switzerland), Maria Hoefl-Riesch (Austria). U.S. chances to medal: Lindsey Vonn being out means opportunities for Mancuso and Cook, who have posted recent top-10 finishes in World Cup. Mancuso also finished third in super-G at last year's world championships in Austria. Little-known fact: Picabo Street won the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Olympics by 0.01 over Austria's...

When: Feb. 16. Best of the U.S.: Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, Leanne Smith. Best of the rest: Lara Gut (Switzerland), Maria Hoefl-Riesch (Austria). U.S. chances to medal: Lindsey Vonn being out means opportunities for Mancuso and Cook, who have posted recent top-10 finishes in World Cup. Mancuso also finished third in super-G at last year's world championships in Austria. Little-known fact: Picabo Street won the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Olympics by 0.01 over Austria's...

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn finished fifth in a World Cup Super-G on Sunday to complete a successful return to the slopes after a serious knee injury. The Olympic downhill champion, who tore knee ligaments at the world championships in February and aggravated the problem in training last month, also came 40th and 11th in the two downhills over the weekend. "I'm so happy," the American told reporters. "Every day it got better. For sure I made...

By Patrick Lang SCHLADMING, Austria, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Alpine skiing world championships got off to a bad start when top racer Lindsey Vonn was injured in a crash in controversial conditions in the opening women's super-G on Tuesday. Slovenia's Tina Maze, the runaway World Cup leader, kept her momentum to snatch her first gold medal of the competition but her feat was obscured by her rival's crash and the decision to let the race go ahead late in the day...